Alex Clare's Popular Music Videos
![Watch Bloodstream (Live from iTunes Festival, London, 2014) [feat. John Newman & Alex Clare] music video by Rudimental](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video128/v4/14/43/3c/14433cf4-21e2-d1cf-bbff-543d7bd93dbb/GB1301800814.sca1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Bloodstream (Live from iTunes Festival, London, 2014) [feat. John Newman & Alex Clare] music video by Rudimental")
![Watch Not Giving In (feat. John Newman & Alex Clare) [Live from iTunes Festival, London, 2014] music video by Rudimental](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video118/v4/f8/75/d4/f875d4b4-ff09-292a-0e04-4f002d6d0b89/GB1301800813.sca1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Not Giving In (feat. John Newman & Alex Clare) [Live from iTunes Festival, London, 2014] music video by Rudimental")
About Alex Clare
Hometown
London, England
Born
September 14, 1986
Genre
Pop
British singer-songwriter Alex Clare fuses his soulful singing with Major Lazer’s dubstep production on his 2011 breakthrough hit “Too Close,” a Top 10 smash on both sides of the Atlantic.
• Clare grew up listening to his parents’ vintage soul, blues, and jazz records. He learned to play drums and kicked around the mid-2000s Camden Town music scene, briefly dating Amy Winehouse.
• He signed with Island Records in 2010 and released his debut album, The Lateness of the Hour, the following year. Due to poor sales, he was dropped months later.
• In March 2012, the single “Too Close”—produced by Diplo, Switch, and Mike Spencer—appeared in a popular software commercial. Given a second life, the song reached No. 4 in the UK and No. 7 in the US. It was nominated for British Single of the Year at the 2013 BRIT Awards.
• Island re-signed Clare for his 2014 sophomore effort, Three Hearts, but dropped him again that same year.
• He recorded his third album, 2017’s Tail of Lions, on a boat in East London.
• Clare became an Orthodox Jew in his early 20s. He lives with his family in Jerusalem and puts his religious beliefs ahead of the trappings of the music industry.
Similar to: Alex Clare
Discover more music and artists similar to Alex Clare, like X Ambassadors, Imagine Dragons, KALEO
